principal
IPA: prˈɪnsʌpʌɫ
noun
- (finance, uncountable) The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
- (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) The chief administrator of a school.
- (UK, Canada) The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
- (law) A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on their behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.
- (law) The primary participant in a crime.
- Either party in a duel.
- (Canada, US) A partner or owner of a business.
- (music) A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.
- (architecture, engineering) The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
- The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
- One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned
- (obsolete) An essential point or rule; a principle.
- A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
- (computing) A security principal.
adjective
- Primary; most important; first level in importance.
- (obsolete, Latinism) Of or relating to a prince; princely.
- (mathematics) Chosen or assumed among a branch of possible values of a multi-valued function so that the function is single-valued.
Examples of "principal" in Sentences
- The principal tenant is the CIA.
- The corporation is the principal.
- The principal standardized the rules.
- The principal admonished the students.
- The accessory accedes to the principal.
- The father was the principal of a gymnasium.
- The Archbishop is the principal of the school.
- The principal is the main face of the administration.
- The Agent's primary fiduciary duty is to be loyal to the Principal.
- The principal disadvantage is the inefficient use of primary energy.
- After all, the term principal impliedly contains the concept of policy making authority.
- This requires the agent to certify that to his knowledge the principal is alive and that the principal has not revoked the power of attorney or that agent's authority to act.
- Although modest in size, the hacienda's casa principal is a grand space with high-beamed ceilings, thick walls, and doors opening onto two portales that overlook the main corral and gardens.
- However, he ignores the fact that for 12 years Ms. Alsop was music director of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra in Denver, initially starting with the title principal conductor; she now is its conductor laureate.
- Remember this, That the ruling, pre - dominant, chief, and principal end in labour - ing for the things of this world, ihould be in in reference to the world to come, Wheft QtrvtA prayed for life, * it was not principal* ly that he mqght live; but that he might live andpraifcQod, Pfal.
- Admitting the truth of this reflection, we might still reply, that the principal merit of the Iliad, considered as the production of Genius, lies in the grandeur of the sentiments, the beauty and sublimity of the illustrations, and the _original_ strokes which are wrought into the description of the _principal Actors_.
- Throughout this news release and except where otherwise indicated, the term "principal amount," where used with respect to the Zero Coupon Notes due 2020, are references to their accreted amount as of the Early Settlement Date as defined below and the term "principal amount at maturity," where used with respect to the Zero Coupon Notes due 2020, are references to their principal amount payable at maturity of $1,000 per note.